NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1785MHz vs 1777MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +153%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

22

3584

Shading Units

1408

112

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

TU116

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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